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EXTRA: Legendary reporter shines light on Trump's presidency

Clip: 09/14/2018 | 6m 17s

Bob Woodward has covered nine presidents as a newspaper reporter and author. Headlines coming out of his latest book, “Fear: Trump in the White House,” paint a bleak picture of dysfunction inside the West Wing. But for Woodward, capturing a presidency under siege in sharp detail is nothing new. Woodward discusses using deep background reporting in his search for truth over the years.

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